Reading, teaching of literature and The queen of the prisons of Greece, by Osman Lins: thinking some terms for debate

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to discuss elements related to reading, readers education and teaching of literature facing the contemporary context of discussion about the Common National Curricular Basis (da Base Nacional Comum Curricular). Therefore, we propose also a reflection about the fading out of the category of
historicity in the contemporary world ”“ the question of posmodernism ”“ and its effects towards the dynamic and complex problems that now exist in the field of literary studies and readers education. Finally, we focus on the question of how the act of reading is configurated in the novel by Osman Lins, The queen of the jails of Greece (A rainha dos cárceres da Grécia) and what is its relation to the literary criticism and to literaray writing.